Chandrayaan 2 Latest Status Update Today: ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 successfully enters the Moon’s orbit

Chandrayaan 2 Latest Status Update Today: ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 successfully enters the Moon’s orbit

Written by Amitabh Sinha |Pune |Updated: August 21, 2019 8:15:59 am

Chandrayaan-2 moves closer to the moon, wait begins for Sept 7 landing

Chandrayaan-2 successfully enters Moon's orbit: The spacecraft has been injected into an elliptical orbit that is 114 km away from the moon’s surface at its nearest point and 18,072 km at its farthest. Sivan said this orbit would be changed through another series of manoeuvres, to let the spacecraft eventually attain a near-circular orbit of 100 km around the moon.

Chandrayaan-2 successfully entered into the orbit of the Moon today. (Image source: ISRO)

Almost 30 days after it was launched, the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft moved into lunar orbit Tuesday, in preparation for a landing on September 7.